What kind of vehicle do you have? If your car is too small, or too motorcycly, or scootery, you may have to help the sensor pick you up by adding a magnet to the underside of your ride. Check the web, there are numerous sites that will give you the details. My solution to this, when the magnet trick doesn't work is twofold. One, if traffic is clear, go anyway. Hope not to get ticketed, (haven't yet). Two, avoid that intersection, and complain to the city, or whomever the authorities are who control that, because the sensors are supposed to work, if they don't, the sensitivity may be off, or the device may be malfunctioning. The people who live parasitically off your tax-money are SUPPOSED to fix it, so let them know it's not working, and they should take care of it for you.
I would not own a vehicle with this anti-technology. If I could not buy one without it, I would buy it, then rip it out/circumvent it/bypass it, or rip the antenna off, or whatever. When I come up to a light, if I am going to be idling more than what I'd guess to be a minute, I thumb the engine-stop switch, then flick it back to run. (If I were worried about wear/tear on my starter motor, or were worried about the engine restarting, I wouldn't) I already do this on my own, but I require it to be MY choice. Note that I didn't say anything about the key. That's because I have a motorcycle. If I had a car, on a hot day, and I had the windows up and the A/C going, I wouldn't want some asshole at IBM or the city's traffic management nazi HQ deciding to kill my engine (and my A/C) for me. No, thanks. Why don't they go invent something useful instead, like an off-switch for children, or a bug that can fly through the open half of a half-open window?
Can someone else sue for damages, since GPL'ed code not being provided would seem to be a violation of everyone's rights... or what about the original author, since it sounds as if they are in violation of the code's original authors granting of license... or did I misunderstand the GPL?
For some reason, reading the post, I got a mental picture of a pimple-faced, gangly teenager, in a green dress-uniform that is about 6 sizes too big for him. He's swimming in it, looks awkward, and the only thing he's wearing that fits is his black horn-rimmed glasses, complete with the ad-hoc masking-tape bridge repair above his nose. This man, with his comically oversized uniform, is going to be in charge of protecting us from cyberterrorists, cybercriminals, cyberdecipticons, cyberrabidpitbullswithaids, cybersharkswithfrickenlaserbeamsattachedtotheirheads, etc. I feel safer already.
...of being kind to little duckies and bunnies, but just in general, FUCK PETA. I will use any such software I come across to kill as many innocent little animals as possible, just because.
A guy I knew named Mark used to go on and on about how environmentally friendly Apple is, and how wonderful Apple is in every possible way. I guess maybe not so wonderful if you're one of the slaves who has to build their toys.
It was a perfect demonstration of what happens when the one piece of safety equipment which could have prevented this was replaced by an inferior technology: the part they left out was AN ALERT DRIVER. I dearly love how car companies try to find more and more exotic ways to relieve the driver of his one BASIC RESPONSIBILITY while driving a car: DRIVING THE CAR. And it fails, of course, as I could only have hoped it would. Just wish I could have seen it in person. Until computers are truly smarter than we are, (and being able to count faster doesn't count,) they will not be effective at replacing us. Next time you think a computer is smarter than a person, ask it who the better captain was, Kirk or Picard. Ask it to defend it's response. If it can do that, MAYBE it is as smart as a person. (If, without being pre-programed to do so, it replies "Why are you wasting time with such a stupid question?" and it actually knows WHY it's a stupid, time wasting question, it will have demonstrated achievement of sentience. Bonus points if it replies "Neither, Malcolm Reynolds!")
BP & their "partners" sure were quick on the finger-pointing blame-evasion dance, weren't they? Maybe drilling for something hazardous and poisonous which floats, (mostly) and is sticky, etc. etc. in WATER is a stupid idea. I guess we'll continue to allow it though, because we can put a man on the moon but we can't figure out how to get a person from a to b without fossil fuels. GAURSH!
I would like to be the first to say "DAM"!!! Beavers are beating us, we must build something truly spectacular, to compete!:) You know it's funny, the only man-made object visible from space is the Great Wall of China, the only beaver-made object visible from space is this Canadian Dam. But you know, there are no beavers in space reporting on these facts, just humans. Guess we're winning, after all which is cool, because I would hate to have to actually fight them. Beavers can be vicious.
So I guess we're all pretty much fucked, now, yes? Maybe drilling for something that FLOATS under the ocean which contains all the life which is churning out about 70% (estimates vary) of the OXYGEN we breathe was maybe, a pretty stupid fucking idea? Oh, and when you see what is going to happen as a result of this, I think you'll agree I haven't used the word FUCK too many times in this post, actually, I haven't used it nearly enough. This is not a disaster. A disaster sucks, you hold some concerts, and everyone eventually is pretty much okay. This could be, well... anyone know any other good planets we can all move to? Ones where we haven't completely fucked up the environment yet? Consider this, fellow Terrans... If you're living in a spaceship, and some god-damned fucking moron blows a hole in the side, what do you do?
Trouble with using a bike for this is that the tubes are filled with BLOOD, which could be infected, (which may be why, after all, you're spinning it, to diagnose,) and if you put it in a bike, and spin it, and get careless, BAM! BLOOD SPRAYING EVERYWHERE if one of the tubes breaks. Much less likely to break inside a salad spinner, and even if it does, it's at least mostly contained. Kind of embarrassed it took a couple Rice students to think this up, and not someone from UH... I'll have to fix that someday.
The McDonald's LT1 Supertasty Computer system (MC-DLT) has had isolation of hot and cold sections since the mid 1980's. They used less environmentally friendly poly-styrene, as the separator, not vinyl like Google does, but that's hardly relevant.
4.3 billion people live with bad copyright laws? I thought there were only about 300 million Americans. Where are they getting this 4.3 billion figure from? This reminds me of when I was in the Army, and some news paper ran a story which stated that soldiers were morally bankrupt, because a survey they did said too many of us thought it was okay to torture someone for information if that information would save American lives. I sent a letter to the editor, (never published, of course) stating using mostly the same language as the original article, tweaked slightly, of course, that the owners of the newspaper were intestinally bankrupt for lacking the balls or brains it would take to acknowledge that sometimes you have to slap someone around if we know he is a bad guy, and has information that could prevent some of the good guys from dying. What a bunch of fcuking pussies. Someone should organize the Great American Buyout. A boycott, if you will. For a week, let's say, anyone who has ever "infringed" doesn't buy anything from the Mafiaa, neither R nor MP. We get everyone to agree not to buy their siht, watch any movies at theaters, etc. Let them know we are in charge, not them. Also, we should start a letter writing campaign to anyone in our govt. meeting with slobbiests of these guys, and let them know if they take money from them, it will be seen-to that they will NOT get to keep their jobs.
TRIAL is NOT a verb, damnit! The verb form of this word is "try". TRY it sometime. The phrase the article poster was attempting to use, before failing, was "Arizona is trying system that lets utility system control home A/C's" Or something like that. This is just one of those little things which pisses me off. This is just like when someone means "multiply" and instead says, "times", such as "You take three and TIMES it by four..." well, the word that person was looking for was "MULTIPLY," but hey, I guess this is what happens when we stop requiring people to learn the language.
Such as http://www.jamendo.com/ free, Creative Commons released/protected music, and lots of it! Totally legal, much of it can even be remixed! Just check the license.
See? Punctuation IS important. It would have been way easier to read with the addition of a well-placed punctuation mark. The sentence should have read as follows: That depends on what the definition of "like" is; does "like" mean "like" or does "like" mean something else? (I also fixed some spelling problems, without changing the meaning of the sentence.)
"What's the matter, haven't you ever lost something, your purse, your car keys? Well it's rather like that..." . ~Dr. Robert Campbell (Medicine Man) (When you read thish, remembar, it's a Shaawn Caawnary, quote, sho you have to shay it jusht... like... thish.)
(This all is written with the admittedly ethnocentric assumptions that you are a nonnative American citizen, and are most likely of European descent. If I'm mistaken, please disregard, the rest of this won't make much sense.) So when you and yours go extinct, everyone around you should just buck-up too, right? By way of analogy, the dying-off of North American Native civilizations, such as the Mound-Builders, resulted in the Spaniards et. al. arriving to find a culture that had devolved back to being, for want of a more generous term, neolithic. If this event had not happened, (c. 900-1300 C.E.) Christophoro Columbo and his crew would have found a civilization of complexity and organization to rival the best of Europe at it's peak to that date, and of vicious blood-lust to rival that of ancient Rome. The steam-rolling of the "Indians" by Europeans might never have occurred, even given the natives' lack of biological resistance; with a large enough initial populous at time of first transatlantic contact, a pool of survivors of all the plagues and pox the Europeans had would have ensured the survival of their nation(s), albeit depleted, of course. If you're not a Native American descendant, and you live in America, (which you might well be, and do,) you owe the civilization you enjoy now, to the ease with which your ancestors were able to tear it from the hands of those who had it first. You owe the civilization you enjoy to the mass die-off of the Native Americans in the 500 years before Europe's forcible penetration of the 'New World'. By an extension of your logic, if THAT was a good thing, then when you and yours all suddenly drop dead, that will be a good thing, from the perspective of whomever takes over what is now "yours". So please continue sanguinely enjoying the fruits of your (and your ancestors') dumb-luck, remembering that just because a massive upheaval resulted in the beautiful blue-green orb we live on today, doesn't mean that we will enjoy the next massive upheaval, in fact, it will probably be rather unpleasant. Hastening it, if indeed we are, when in fact we needn't, is downright stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of vehicle do you have? If your car is too small, or too motorcycly, or scootery, you may have to help the sensor pick you up by adding a magnet to the underside of your ride. Check the web, there are numerous sites that will give you the details. My solution to this, when the magnet trick doesn't work is twofold. One, if traffic is clear, go anyway. Hope not to get ticketed, (haven't yet). Two, avoid that intersection, and complain to the city, or whomever the authorities are who control that, because the sensors are supposed to work, if they don't, the sensitivity may be off, or the device may be malfunctioning. The people who live parasitically off your tax-money are SUPPOSED to fix it, so let them know it's not working, and they should take care of it for you.
I would not own a vehicle with this anti-technology. If I could not buy one without it, I would buy it, then rip it out/circumvent it/bypass it, or rip the antenna off, or whatever. When I come up to a light, if I am going to be idling more than what I'd guess to be a minute, I thumb the engine-stop switch, then flick it back to run. (If I were worried about wear/tear on my starter motor, or were worried about the engine restarting, I wouldn't) I already do this on my own, but I require it to be MY choice. Note that I didn't say anything about the key. That's because I have a motorcycle. If I had a car, on a hot day, and I had the windows up and the A/C going, I wouldn't want some asshole at IBM or the city's traffic management nazi HQ deciding to kill my engine (and my A/C) for me. No, thanks. Why don't they go invent something useful instead, like an off-switch for children, or a bug that can fly through the open half of a half-open window?
That those giant Smurfs in Avatar play, isn't it?
Can someone else sue for damages, since GPL'ed code not being provided would seem to be a violation of everyone's rights... or what about the original author, since it sounds as if they are in violation of the code's original authors granting of license... or did I misunderstand the GPL?
For some reason, reading the post, I got a mental picture of a pimple-faced, gangly teenager, in a green dress-uniform that is about 6 sizes too big for him. He's swimming in it, looks awkward, and the only thing he's wearing that fits is his black horn-rimmed glasses, complete with the ad-hoc masking-tape bridge repair above his nose. This man, with his comically oversized uniform, is going to be in charge of protecting us from cyberterrorists, cybercriminals, cyberdecipticons, cyberrabidpitbullswithaids, cybersharkswithfrickenlaserbeamsattachedtotheirheads, etc. I feel safer already.
...of being kind to little duckies and bunnies, but just in general, FUCK PETA. I will use any such software I come across to kill as many innocent little animals as possible, just because.
A guy I knew named Mark used to go on and on about how environmentally friendly Apple is, and how wonderful Apple is in every possible way. I guess maybe not so wonderful if you're one of the slaves who has to build their toys.
It was a perfect demonstration of what happens when the one piece of safety equipment which could have prevented this was replaced by an inferior technology: the part they left out was AN ALERT DRIVER. I dearly love how car companies try to find more and more exotic ways to relieve the driver of his one BASIC RESPONSIBILITY while driving a car: DRIVING THE CAR. And it fails, of course, as I could only have hoped it would. Just wish I could have seen it in person. Until computers are truly smarter than we are, (and being able to count faster doesn't count,) they will not be effective at replacing us. Next time you think a computer is smarter than a person, ask it who the better captain was, Kirk or Picard. Ask it to defend it's response. If it can do that, MAYBE it is as smart as a person. (If, without being pre-programed to do so, it replies "Why are you wasting time with such a stupid question?" and it actually knows WHY it's a stupid, time wasting question, it will have demonstrated achievement of sentience. Bonus points if it replies "Neither, Malcolm Reynolds!")
Whoa! Check out the brain on saturndude! :-)
BP & their "partners" sure were quick on the finger-pointing blame-evasion dance, weren't they? Maybe drilling for something hazardous and poisonous which floats, (mostly) and is sticky, etc. etc. in WATER is a stupid idea. I guess we'll continue to allow it though, because we can put a man on the moon but we can't figure out how to get a person from a to b without fossil fuels. GAURSH!
but *MY* computer doesn't leave indelible purple stains on the tablecloth!
I would like to be the first to say "DAM"!!! Beavers are beating us, we must build something truly spectacular, to compete! :)
You know it's funny, the only man-made object visible from space is the Great Wall of China, the only beaver-made object visible from space is this Canadian Dam. But you know, there are no beavers in space reporting on these facts, just humans. Guess we're winning, after all which is cool, because I would hate to have to actually fight them. Beavers can be vicious.
I can't imagine why prices would go up. There's now plenty of oil, and it's free. Just go down to the Gulf Coast with a bucket...
So I guess we're all pretty much fucked, now, yes? Maybe drilling for something that FLOATS under the ocean which contains all the life which is churning out about 70% (estimates vary) of the OXYGEN we breathe was maybe, a pretty stupid fucking idea? Oh, and when you see what is going to happen as a result of this, I think you'll agree I haven't used the word FUCK too many times in this post, actually, I haven't used it nearly enough. This is not a disaster. A disaster sucks, you hold some concerts, and everyone eventually is pretty much okay. This could be, well... anyone know any other good planets we can all move to? Ones where we haven't completely fucked up the environment yet? Consider this, fellow Terrans... If you're living in a spaceship, and some god-damned fucking moron blows a hole in the side, what do you do?
Trouble with using a bike for this is that the tubes are filled with BLOOD, which could be infected, (which may be why, after all, you're spinning it, to diagnose,) and if you put it in a bike, and spin it, and get careless, BAM! BLOOD SPRAYING EVERYWHERE if one of the tubes breaks. Much less likely to break inside a salad spinner, and even if it does, it's at least mostly contained. Kind of embarrassed it took a couple Rice students to think this up, and not someone from UH... I'll have to fix that someday.
The McDonald's LT1 Supertasty Computer system (MC-DLT) has had isolation of hot and cold sections since the mid 1980's. They used less environmentally friendly poly-styrene, as the separator, not vinyl like Google does, but that's hardly relevant.
4.3 billion people live with bad copyright laws? I thought there were only about 300 million Americans. Where are they getting this 4.3 billion figure from? This reminds me of when I was in the Army, and some news paper ran a story which stated that soldiers were morally bankrupt, because a survey they did said too many of us thought it was okay to torture someone for information if that information would save American lives. I sent a letter to the editor, (never published, of course) stating using mostly the same language as the original article, tweaked slightly, of course, that the owners of the newspaper were intestinally bankrupt for lacking the balls or brains it would take to acknowledge that sometimes you have to slap someone around if we know he is a bad guy, and has information that could prevent some of the good guys from dying. What a bunch of fcuking pussies. Someone should organize the Great American Buyout. A boycott, if you will. For a week, let's say, anyone who has ever "infringed" doesn't buy anything from the Mafiaa, neither R nor MP. We get everyone to agree not to buy their siht, watch any movies at theaters, etc. Let them know we are in charge, not them. Also, we should start a letter writing campaign to anyone in our govt. meeting with slobbiests of these guys, and let them know if they take money from them, it will be seen-to that they will NOT get to keep their jobs.
TRIAL is NOT a verb, damnit! The verb form of this word is "try". TRY it sometime. The phrase the article poster was attempting to use, before failing, was "Arizona is trying system that lets utility system control home A/C's" Or something like that. This is just one of those little things which pisses me off. This is just like when someone means "multiply" and instead says, "times", such as "You take three and TIMES it by four..." well, the word that person was looking for was "MULTIPLY," but hey, I guess this is what happens when we stop requiring people to learn the language.
Such as http://www.jamendo.com/ free, Creative Commons released/protected music, and lots of it! Totally legal, much of it can even be remixed! Just check the license.
There's no spyware on my Commodore 64, it doesn't have the capability of running any.
See? Punctuation IS important. It would have been way easier to read with the addition of a well-placed punctuation mark. The sentence should have read as follows:
That depends on what the definition of "like" is; does "like" mean "like" or does "like" mean something else?
(I also fixed some spelling problems, without changing the meaning of the sentence.)
"What's the matter, haven't you ever lost something, your purse, your car keys? Well it's rather like that..." . ~Dr. Robert Campbell (Medicine Man) (When you read thish, remembar, it's a Shaawn Caawnary, quote, sho you have to shay it jusht... like... thish.)
(This all is written with the admittedly ethnocentric assumptions that you are a nonnative American citizen, and are most likely of European descent. If I'm mistaken, please disregard, the rest of this won't make much sense.)
So when you and yours go extinct, everyone around you should just buck-up too, right? By way of analogy, the dying-off of North American Native civilizations, such as the Mound-Builders, resulted in the Spaniards et. al. arriving to find a culture that had devolved back to being, for want of a more generous term, neolithic. If this event had not happened, (c. 900-1300 C.E.) Christophoro Columbo and his crew would have found a civilization of complexity and organization to rival the best of Europe at it's peak to that date, and of vicious blood-lust to rival that of ancient Rome. The steam-rolling of the "Indians" by Europeans might never have occurred, even given the natives' lack of biological resistance; with a large enough initial populous at time of first transatlantic contact, a pool of survivors of all the plagues and pox the Europeans had would have ensured the survival of their nation(s), albeit depleted, of course.
If you're not a Native American descendant, and you live in America, (which you might well be, and do,) you owe the civilization you enjoy now, to the ease with which your ancestors were able to tear it from the hands of those who had it first. You owe the civilization you enjoy to the mass die-off of the Native Americans in the 500 years before Europe's forcible penetration of the 'New World'. By an extension of your logic, if THAT was a good thing, then when you and yours all suddenly drop dead, that will be a good thing, from the perspective of whomever takes over what is now "yours".
So please continue sanguinely enjoying the fruits of your (and your ancestors') dumb-luck, remembering that just because a massive upheaval resulted in the beautiful blue-green orb we live on today, doesn't mean that we will enjoy the next massive upheaval, in fact, it will probably be rather unpleasant. Hastening it, if indeed we are, when in fact we needn't, is downright stupid.
I've made popcorn, should be a hellova show!
How many accounts did you have to set-up to achieve that? :) Or was it a happy accident? (P.S. My /. UID is prime too. Total accident.)